Please post opinions/insight on Everex PC and gOS operating system

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Can the members please post opinions on this pc and operating system?

It is the Everex gPC and the gOS operating system.

PC link: http://www.everex.com/ and the operating system is: http://www.thinkgos.com/

It looks interesting for $199.00 Linux box at Walmart: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=7754614

Thanks.

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Linux at Walmart, ick.

I think the combination might rip a tear in the fabric of space time, not to mention make me barf.

Jon's picture

For the money I'd consider wi

For the money I'd consider wiping the gOS and dropping on a regular Linux install. $199 is just about at build-it-yourself prices and you can get a really nice Linux distro for a free download. Heck, a cheap RAM upgrade to 1GB (via a cheap 512MB DDR2 DIMM) would make it much better. Of course it's also a Socket 479 chip, so if we found out the chipset it might also be possible to swap out a better CPU - but that's a lot more cash. I thin they are making too big a deal about how efficient and environmental the C7-D is. It's a CPU and chipset, sure it can make a difference, but if that's the difference that swings a person to the C7 over another low-power chip, oh well. Eye-wink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_C7-D
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/c7-d/

a BSD

I'm becoming a fan of the BSDs (I've not tried the NetBSD, yet). FreeBSD makes me happy, if the hardware won't run it, NetBSD only requires a bit more work.

Smiththers's picture

heck id buy that just for a c

heck id buy that just for a chat/browser machine with windows xp.

MaxTek's picture

Re: Linux at Walmart, ick.

vieuxnez wrote:
I think the combination might rip a tear in the fabric of space time, not to mention make me barf.

Can you tell me what purpose this statement has or how it will help me?

MaxTek's picture

Re: For the money I'd consider wi

Jon wrote:
For the money I'd consider wiping the gOS and dropping on a regular Linux install.

What is wrong with gOS? I was under the impression it was a version of Ubuntu. Why would you drop it?

Linux = Free as in Freedom.

Linux = Free as in Freedom.
Walmart = Cheap as in make less money so you can get Medicaid. (
http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/feature/healthcrisis/map.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=wal%20mart%20rights%20violations)

I believe you said post opinions, and asked for no specific help solving any problems. What is it you want to know?

eeun's picture

gOS has a familiar looking do

gOS has a familiar looking dock at the bottom of the screen:).

From the little I've seen, gOS is Ubuntu-based, stripped-down for an "average user"...whatever that is. I suspect it means things like developer tools aren't part of the default install.

While I approve of Via processors, the PC is very bland compared to some of the nice mini-itx cases out there. And Everex's quote of "averages 2 watts of power consumption" I find dubious. An average hard drive alone will pull around 5 to 9 watts at idle (source).

CD

gOS offers a CD downloadable through BitTorrent.

Also they sell the motherboard by itself for $59. It seems like a nice board with 2 PCI slots. While it's not bad, I just bought a Duron 1600/motherboard/512MB RAM for $50 so I'm not in the market for one right now. Smiling